Published on 23 June 2025
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 24515/19
Vadym Valeriyovych SENCHENKO against Ukraine
and 6 other applications
(see list appended)
communicated on 3 June 2025
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES
The applications concern the irreducibility of the applicant’s life sentences, which existed prior 3 March 2023, the date on which the new reducibility of life-sentence mechanism, introduced by Law no. 2690-IX of 18 October 2022, became fully operational. They raise an issue under Article 3 of the Convention.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Had there been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention on account of the applicants’ allegedly irreducible life sentence as regards the period prior to 3 March 2023 (see Medvid v. Ukraine, no. 7453/23, §§ 60-61, 10 October 2024)?
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Case name
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Place of Residence
Nationality
Represented by
1.
24515/19
Senchenko
v. Ukraine
24/04/2019
Vadym Valeriyovych SENCHENKO
1979
Perekhrestivka
Ukrainian
2.
12002/23
Shynkovska
v. Ukraine
06/02/2023
Nataliya Oleksandrivna SHYNKOVSKA
1976
Vinnytsya
Ukrainian
3.
12744/23
Mikheyev
v. Ukraine
01/03/2023
Andriy Volodymyrovych MIKHEYEV
1970
Vinnytsya
Ukrainian
4.
15032/23
Kryvonos
v. Ukraine
15/03/2023
Svitlana Anatoliyivna KRYVONOS
1963
Kharkiv
Ukrainian
5.
17280/23
Bakhmach
v. Ukraine
30/03/2023
Oleksandr Mykolayovych BAKHMACH
1962
Vinnytsya
Ukrainian
Galyna Ivanivna GNATYUK
6.
18601/23
Klyuchnik
v. Ukraine
19/04/2023
Sergiy Stepanovych KLYUCHNIK
1966
Vinnytsya
Ukrainian
Yevgen Volodymyrovych CHEKARYOV
7.
20661/23
Tyshkovets
v. Ukraine
06/05/2023
Lyudmyla Anatoliyivna TYSHKOVETS
1974
Kharkiv
Ukrainian